Vincent Black Lightning!

Here’s a 1949.  Quite a machine!

The famous song is about a 1952 model.  Here’s a YT video. Lyrics here.

Here’s another beautiful black machine:

Quite a machine too!

I GB on board, 160GB HD, 11.6″ screen, 3 #  Available at Amazon for $419 — one third the price of the MacBooks pushed [...]

Impulse Control

More social science in the news! Or perhaps this is another case of (to put it charitably) academics confirming what ordinary folk knew all along?

There’s a

growing body of research on “self-regulation” – people’s ability to stop, think, make a plan and control their impulses. It’s not a universal skill, as many grown-ups’ credit [...]

The Social Uses of Guilt

A recent study shows that very young children have a more developed moral calculus than we’ve perhaps previously thought. It came to our attention through a recent report in the New York Times (and its follow-ups).

Young children used to be seen as oblivious to the world of values and rules, and as focused entirely [...]

Who Woulda Thunk It?

From the “Well, yeah!” Department:

A study published this month in the journal Pediatrics studied the links between recess and classroom behavior among about 11,000 children age 8 and 9. Those who had more than 15 minutes of recess a day showed better behavior in class than those who had little or none. Although disadvantaged [...]